NPM issue on Mac

Question

I had been using VS Code for my development works, when all of a sudden my npm install commands stopped working and started giving me errors like below:

⸨░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░⸩ ⠧ rollbackFailedOptional: verb npm-session abcd123456789efg

npm ERR! code ECONNRESET
npm ERR! errno ECONNRESET
npm ERR! network request to https://registry.npmjs.org/passport failed, reason: read ECONNRESET
npm ERR! network This is a problem related to network connectivity.
npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm ERR! network
npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/ajaywadhwani/.npm/_logs/2019-01-27T22_33_38_087Z-debug.log

I am not behind any proxy by any chance.

Interestingly, a ping to the link https://registry.npmjs.org/passport through my browser takes me to the webpage with the content, and can ping the website through terminal.

Kindly advise and suggest.

Answer 1

Try updating to the latest version npm with the command npm install npm@latest -g .

I would also make sure there's no proxy set up by going to System Preferences > Network > your connection (Wi-Fi, for example) > Advanced... > Proxies and looking for any checked boxes.

Please let me know if these solutions work or not.